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The Cray X-MP/Model 24

A Case Study in Pipelined Architecture and Vector Processing

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Kay A. Robbins
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  2. Steven Robbins
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 374)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Overview of the Cray X-MP/Model 24

    Pages 1-3
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  3. The control section

    Pages 4-10
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  4. The scalar section

    Pages 11-16
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  5. The address section

    Pages 17-20
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  6. Vectors and vector operations

    Pages 21-43
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  7. Memory access

    Pages 44-56
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  8. Interprocessor communication and multitasking

    Pages 57-79
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  9. Back Matter

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This book examines the issues relevant to the design of vector and pipelined computer systems using the Cray X-MP/24. The purpose of the book is to help the readers arrive at a deep understanding of how vector processing systems really work. These insights will be useful to the scientist who would like to obtain maximum performance from a vector machine, to the computer science student, and to the compiler writer. The book can also be used to supplement a regular textbook in a graduate or senior level course in computer architecture. The book looks at the overall design of the Cray X-MP and then explores the operation of the machine by looking at detailed timings of various instructions and code segments. It examines such issues as instruction issues and buffering, handling of jump instructions, use of registers to hold intermediate results, memory conflicts resulting from vectorization, optimal vectorization of multiple statement loops, and synchronization problems with multi-tasking.Detailed Gantt charts are provided to guide the reader through the timing issues. 

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